Python Web Scraping Cookbook

How to do it

Here is how proceed with the recipe:

Run the script for the recipe. It will execute the following code:

from os.path import expanduserimport constfrom core.file_blob_writer import FileBlobWriterfrom core.image_thumbnail_generator import ImageThumbnailGeneratorfrom util.urls import URLUtility# download the image and get the bytesimg_data = URLUtility(const.ApodEclipseImage()).data# we will store this in our home folderfw = FileBlobWriter(expanduser("~"))# Create a thumbnail generator and scale the imagetg = ImageThumbnailGenerator(img_data).scale(200, 200)# write the image to a filefw.write("eclipse_thumbnail.png", tg.bytes)

The result from this will be a file named eclipse_thumbnail.png written into your home directory.

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